Translation with a face

This book is based on a PhD thesis entitled "Philosophy of Translation: Between the Literal and the Interpretation". The present text differs from the latter not merely in form - both due to the year - long maturation of the initial ideas, as well as to the different target audience. The research aims at elucidating the position and interrelation of interpretation and literalness, as well as the factors underlining their interaction in the process of translation. What ultimately ensues is a new perspective on questions regarding the essence and boundaries of translation.

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The Kaleidoscope of translation studies: Introduction
What is actually translation?

• Working definition
• The limits of translation
• Two boundary cases
• Literalness
• Interpretativeness
• Stretching translation to its breaking point

The Crossroads of the literal and interpretation

• Overview
• Sacred texts
• The Qur'an's untranslatability
• The Bible's translatability
• "Word-for-word" versus "sense-for-sense"
• Secular texts
• Free Translations
• Autotranslations
• "Model translation"?
• Tandem translation
• Literalness in translation

From "Either-or" to "Yin-Yang"

• Intuition and beyond
• The "dialectic" between the literal and the interpretation
• The personal aspect of translation
• Technology of translation or translation situation?
• Final remarks

Bibliography